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Hi,

I remeber seeing a post that informs how to configure notron firewall so that the pages displays correctly 9rather than just x where images should be). can anyone advise where i can locate the details.

thanks

http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/forums/thread.asp?Forum=113&Thread=46466

See our site news on this point:

http://www.dvd.reviewer.co.uk/news/news.asp?Index=4345&Section=1

Mark

Just out of intrest why do the webmasters/site designers opt for displaying the images this way?

I use Zone Alarm Pro and the only way I can view the images is to disable the cookie protection. Not a huge problem, but I`d rather have this `anti cookie` protection running and DVDRev seems to be one of the only sites that I frequently visit that are affected. Zone Alarm can`t be configured (to my knowledge) to authorise certain sites and domains against this problem like Norton can.

For a non technical reason (I`m sure Rob can give you a more techie one!) basically we do this to stop other sites directly linking to our graphics, and thus stealing our bandwidth (which we have had problems in the past - if they do it now they get a rather different graphic on their site to what they were expecting).

Also having a dedicated graphics server speeds the site up considerably.

Mark
DVD Reviewer

Sounds interesting, can we see this graphic ? Ah, go on.

It`s actually got NOTHING to do with cookies, its to do with the referrers information that is passed from your client to the server. If the referrer isn`t *.reviewer.co.uk then you get no images, if it is then you do.

Software like zonealarm can block referrers, so our image server has no idea where the images are being included web page wise, so it doesn`t give them to you.

Personally in my experience the people who use zonealarm, norton internet security, etc, don`t understand exactly what they do or why they do it. And they also end up giving away far more about themselves through their own actions than these utilities protect them from.

How many of you use the same username/password for multiple sites? And how many of you use an easily guessable username and password, such as a word without numbers in it? Most I bet. :)

Security and protection has become an obsessively meaningless sales pitch on the internet imho, you NEED a firewall to keep you safe, you MUST block all cookies or your privacy is invaded. Etc, etc.

To an extent this is true, but as long as you are running an up-to-date properly configured operating system with all the latest patches, you don`t actually need any of the above, you just need common sense when it comes to handing over your personal details. Anyone who tells you different is selling something.